In both positive ways and shadowy ones, “cult language” is, in fact, something we hear and are swayed by every single day. Our speech in regular life—at work, in Spin class, on Instagram—is evidence of our varying degrees of “cult”
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“First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“It's like the corporate world's full of ghosts … maybe a fairer way of putting this would be to say that adulthood's full of ghosts … these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed ... They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped … High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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